“A Guitarist Tunes Up”‚ by Frances Cornford compassionately compares a simple untuned guitar to a beloved young lady. It is a clear‚ suggestive‚ and effective poem. It also expresses the difference between creative instinct and possessive instinct. Cornford suggested that the guitarist is an artist who is well aware of the behaviour of the guitar “an instrument made of wire and wood” (4). He knows where and how should he strike the strings of the guitar to bring about certain musical sounds. He is
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there are Whose eyes shine as the evening star‚ But be their charm no matter what‚ Like you they’re not‚ like you they’re not! For you shine in my soul always More softly than the starlight blaze‚ More splendid than the risen sun‚ Beloved one‚ beloved one! But it is late in autumn now‚ The leaves have fallen from the bough‚ The fields are bare‚ the birds are dumb. Why don’t you come‚ why don’t you come? Above translation by Corneliu M. Popescu Mihai Eminescu‚ 1850-1889‚ was
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WORLD LITERATURE Film Analysis of HELEN OF TROY SUBMITTED BY: Galagar‚ Mikko MC21 In the film‚ Helen of Troy one of the main character is Achilles‚ the demigod warrior‚ a highly skilled and the strongest champion of Greece which also showed his soft side – his kindness‚ care‚ love for a woman and brotherly love for his cousin‚ Petraclus. The film really captured my idea of Achilles based on the book of Greek mythology. I think anyone who will watch attentively in
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RAVEN - SETTING The chamber of a house at midnight. Poe uses the word chamber rather than bedroom apparently because chamber has a dark and mysterious connotation. THE RAVEN - NARRATION First-Person Narrator (Persona) A man who has lost his beloved‚ a woman named Lenore. He is depressed‚ lonely‚ and possibly mentally unstable as a result of his bereavement. THE RAVEN - SOURCE INSPIRATION OF The raven in Charles Dickens’ 1841 novel‚ Barnaby Rudge‚ a historical novel about antiCatholic
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Socrates as an Exemplar of Love It may seem at first that Plato wrote Symposium merely to praise Love through a sequence of speeches made by the selected male speakers attending the drinking party. After Socrates makes his speech on the truth of love however‚ it becomes more apparent that Symposium is also a tribute to Socrates and his way of life. Although this is shown gradually and indirectly‚ Plato eventually makes clear his respect and admiration for Socrates’ way of life. The structure of
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poem John Donne depicts his heart as somethig material such as a broken mirror or glass. So he pointes out that when someone’s heart is broken ‚ it makes his life miserable and can not be able to fall in love any more. He also describes how his beloved shattered his heart into a million of pecies. Firstly the broken heart poem is consists of 4 stanzas in ab ab cc dd rhyme.the title of the poem revealed to what extent love kills our soul. The poet takes to his audience and readers as he begins
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Suubi N Musisi Mr. Miller AP English Lit 3 December 2013 Magical Realism Magic realism or magical realism is an art form where magic elements are a natural part in an otherwise mundane‚ realistic environment. (Faris‚ Wendy B. and Lois Parkinson Zamora‚ Introduction to Magical Realism: Theory‚ History‚ Community‚ pp. 5) Although it is most commonly used as a literary form‚ magic realism also applies to film and the visual arts. Professor Matthew Strecher defines magic realism as "what happens
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question Mr.Karazai’s only son called the police saying that his father had hung himself from a chandelier at his estate. The police found his feet hanging about two feet above the stool‚ and several pieces of steel wire had been ripped out of his beloved piano. As a result from the evidence I concluded that his son murdered him. First‚ Mr.Karazai’s hands are tied together. Generally‚ it is almost humanly impossible to tie your hands together then hang yourself from a chandelier. In conclusion
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the place is the Welton Academy in Vermont. Welton is one of those expensive‚ tradition-bound boys’ preparatory schools somewhat more beloved in‚ and more significant to‚ English literature than American. The time is 1959 and the place is the Welton Academy in Vermont. Welton is one of those expensive‚ tradition-bound boys’ preparatory schools somewhat more beloved in‚ and more significant to‚ English literature than American. This being 1959‚ Welton has not yet been pressured into accepting
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analyse the poem “Sonnet I” by William Percy which is the first part of his series “Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia” (1594). The poem deals with a man suffering from unreturned love which leads to an unexpected change of his attitude towards the beloved woman. It is divided into four sections‚ each of them dealing with its own topic. In order to identify the speaker‚ the reader has to rely on the personal pronoun “I” (line 2). The speaker is a man whose fate is put into the focus right from the
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